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/></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">The June 16, 2009, front page of<br /><i>The News & Observer</i></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Type</th><td class="infobox-data">Daily <a href="/wiki/Newspaper" title="Newspaper">newspaper</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Format</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Broadsheet" title="Broadsheet">Broadsheet</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Owner(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/The_McClatchy_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="The McClatchy Company">The McClatchy Company</a><sup id="cite_ref-McClatchy_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McClatchy-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Editor</th><td class="infobox-data agent">Bill Church</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">1865 (as <i>The Sentinel</i>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Language</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data label">421 Fayetteville Street, Suite 104<br /><a href="/wiki/Raleigh,_North_Carolina" title="Raleigh, North Carolina">Raleigh</a>, <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a> 27601<br /><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Newspaper_circulation" class="mw-redirect" title="Newspaper circulation">Circulation</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>Print daily: 68,667</li><li>Print Sunday: 84,995</li><li>Avg. mo. unique visitors: 4,537,000</li><li>Avg. mo. page views: 25,393,000</li></ul></div> (as of 2020)<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/search?fq=x0:jrnl&q=n2:2688-8807">2688-8807</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> number</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46320400">46320400 </a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newsobserver.com/">www<wbr />.newsobserver<wbr />.com</a></span> <span class="mw-valign-text-top noprint" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7753904#P856" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>The News & Observer</b></i> is an American regional daily newspaper that serves the greater <a href="/wiki/Research_Triangle" title="Research Triangle">Triangle</a> area based in <a href="/wiki/Raleigh,_North_Carolina" title="Raleigh, North Carolina">Raleigh, North Carolina</a>. The paper is the largest in circulation in the state (second is the <i><a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Observer" class="mw-redirect" title="Charlotte Observer">Charlotte Observer</a></i>). The paper has been awarded three <a href="/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize" title="Pulitzer Prize">Pulitzer Prizes</a>, the most recent of which was in 1996 for a series on the health and environmental impact of North Carolina's booming hog industry.<sup id="cite_ref-prize96_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-prize96-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The paper was one of the first in the world to launch an online version of the publication,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Nando_(media_company)" title="Nando (media company)">Nando.net</a> in 1994.<sup id="cite_ref-NCPedia2_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NCPedia2-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ownership">Ownership</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_News_%26_Observer&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Ownership"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On May 17, 1995 the News & Observer Publishing Company was sold to <a href="/wiki/The_McClatchy_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="The McClatchy Company">McClatchy Newspapers</a> of <a href="/wiki/Sacramento,_California" title="Sacramento, California">Sacramento</a>, <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>, for $373 million, ending 101 years of Daniels family ownership. In the mid-1990s, <a href="/wiki/Flexography" title="Flexography">flexo</a> machines were installed, allowing the paper to print thirty-two pages in color, which was the largest capacity of any newspaper within the United States at the time. The McClatchy Company currently operates a total of twenty-nine daily newspapers in fourteen states with a combined weekday circulation of 1.6 million and a Sunday circulation of 2.4 million. With McClatchy's acquisition of most of <a href="/wiki/Knight_Ridder" title="Knight Ridder">Knight Ridder</a>'s properties in 2006, North Carolina's two largest newspapers (the <i>News & Observer</i> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Charlotte_Observer" title="The Charlotte Observer">The Charlotte Observer</a></i>) are now under common ownership.<sup id="cite_ref-McClatchy2_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McClatchy2-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NCPedia2_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NCPedia2-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_News_%26_Observer&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <i>News & Observer</i> traces its roots to <i>The Sentinel,</i> which was founded by the Rev. William E. Pell in 1865 and who used, "the newspaper to fight against the domination of <a href="/wiki/Carpetbagger" title="Carpetbagger">carpetbaggers</a> and other forces during Congressional <a href="/wiki/Reconstruction_era" title="Reconstruction era">Reconstruction</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-NCPedia2_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NCPedia2-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The paper's struggles to stay relevant and make money led to new ownership in 1868. With the new owner <i>The Sentinel</i> began to cover the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democrats</a>' push to retake the <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina_General_Assembly" title="North Carolina General Assembly">North Carolina Legislature</a>, along with the impeachment of <a href="/wiki/William_Woods_Holden" title="William Woods Holden">Gov. William W. Holden</a> in 1871.<sup id="cite_ref-NCPedia2_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NCPedia2-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Josephus_Daniels_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Josephus_Daniels_1.jpg/150px-Josephus_Daniels_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="210" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Josephus_Daniels_1.jpg/225px-Josephus_Daniels_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Josephus_Daniels_1.jpg/300px-Josephus_Daniels_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="438" data-file-height="613" /></a><figcaption>Josephus Daniels, the principal shaper of <i>The News & Observer</i></figcaption></figure> <p><i>The Sentinel</i> went bankrupt a little over ten years after the paper was first founded. The owners of the newly founded <i>Raleigh Observer</i>, Peter M. Hale and <a href="/wiki/William_L._Saunders" title="William L. Saunders">William L. Saunders</a>, bought the now-bankrupt paper, ending its publication and focusing on the <i>Raleigh Observer</i>. After about ten years the paper ran out of money, so the two owners sold to the owner of the <i>Raleigh News</i>, Samuel A. Ashe.<sup id="cite_ref-NCPedia2_5-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NCPedia2-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ashe combined the two papers under the new banner <i>The News & Observer</i> in September 1880, making it the sole daily paper in <a href="/wiki/Raleigh,_North_Carolina" title="Raleigh, North Carolina">Raleigh</a>. Ashe ran the company personally until 1894, focusing on politics and the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic party</a>. Ashe used connections within the Democratic Party to get an upper leg on upcoming stories. This model worked well for the paper until Ashe lost favor in the Democratic <a href="/wiki/Caucus" title="Caucus">caucus</a>, leading the paper to fall on hard financial times for the fourth time in its history.<sup id="cite_ref-NCPedia2_5-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NCPedia2-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1894 the paper was sold at auction, this time to a <a href="/wiki/Washington,_North_Carolina" title="Washington, North Carolina">Washington, North Carolina</a>, native who was a strong Democratic supporter. <a href="/wiki/Josephus_Daniels" title="Josephus Daniels">Josephus Daniels</a>, with help from <a href="/wiki/Julian_Carr_(industrialist)" class="mw-redirect" title="Julian Carr (industrialist)">Julian Carr</a> and other friends, bought the paper. Quickly Daniels refocused the <i>News and Observer</i> to combat rampant corruption and other problems he saw within the state. Put differently by Daniels himself, "The <i>News and Observer</i> was relied upon to carry the Democratic message and to be the militant voice of <a href="/wiki/White_Supremacy" class="mw-redirect" title="White Supremacy">White Supremacy</a>, and it did not fail in what was expected, sometimes going to extremes in its partisanship."<sup id="cite_ref-Campbell_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Campbell-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 39">: 39 </span></sup> Daniels believed that "the greatest folly and crime" in U.S. history was granting Blacks the right to vote.<sup id="cite_ref-Campbell_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Campbell-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 37">: 37 </span></sup> </p><p>In the findings of the Wilmington Race Riot Commission, Daniels is the only name mentioned as a cause of the <a href="/wiki/Wilmington_insurrection_of_1898" class="mw-redirect" title="Wilmington insurrection of 1898">Wilmington insurrection of 1898</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Report_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Report-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 1">: 1 </span></sup> According to historian <a href="/wiki/Helen_Edmonds" class="mw-redirect" title="Helen Edmonds">Helen Edmonds</a>, the paper "led in a campaign of prejudice, bitterness, vilification, misrepresentation, and exaggeration to influence the emotions of the whites against the Negro."<sup id="cite_ref-Report_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Report-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 61">: 61 </span></sup> The result was the only successful <i><a href="/wiki/Coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="Coup d'état">coup d'état</a></i> in American history, the overthrow of Wilmington's elected government by force.<sup id="cite_ref-NCPedia2_5-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NCPedia2-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%E2%80%9CNEWS_AND_OBSERVER%E2%80%9D_newspaper_of_Raleigh_from_-_The_North_Carolina_year_book_and_business_directory_(serial)_(IA_northcarolinayea1913rale)_(page_456_crop).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/%E2%80%9CNEWS_AND_OBSERVER%E2%80%9D_newspaper_of_Raleigh_from_-_The_North_Carolina_year_book_and_business_directory_%28serial%29_%28IA_northcarolinayea1913rale%29_%28page_456_crop%29.jpg/220px-thumbnail.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="697" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/%E2%80%9CNEWS_AND_OBSERVER%E2%80%9D_newspaper_of_Raleigh_from_-_The_North_Carolina_year_book_and_business_directory_%28serial%29_%28IA_northcarolinayea1913rale%29_%28page_456_crop%29.jpg/330px-thumbnail.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/%E2%80%9CNEWS_AND_OBSERVER%E2%80%9D_newspaper_of_Raleigh_from_-_The_North_Carolina_year_book_and_business_directory_%28serial%29_%28IA_northcarolinayea1913rale%29_%28page_456_crop%29.jpg/440px-thumbnail.jpg 2x" data-file-width="583" data-file-height="1846" /></a><figcaption>1913 ad showing circulation numbers in prior years</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1900, he used the paper to support soon-to-be Governor <a href="/wiki/Charles_Brantley_Aycock" title="Charles Brantley Aycock">Charles B. Aycock</a>, another white supremacist, during his bid for the office. He also used the paper to advocate <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage" title="Women's suffrage">female suffrage</a>, <a href="/wiki/Workers%27_compensation" title="Workers' compensation">workers' compensation</a>, state industrialization, better roads and <a href="/wiki/Crop_rotation" title="Crop rotation">crop rotation</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-NCPedia1_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NCPedia1-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NCPedia2_5-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NCPedia2-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2006, on occasion of the release of the report of the 1898 Wilmington Race Riot Commission, the newspaper offered "an apology for the acts of someone [Daniels] we continue to salute in a different context…and for the misdeeds of the paper as an institution." The newspaper published a 16-page special report on the events of 1898.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="After_Daniels">After Daniels</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_News_%26_Observer&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: After Daniels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Daniels continued to run the paper until his death in the mid-1940s. After his death his four sons assumed management of the company. All four sons contributed to the operation of the paper, but <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_W._Daniels" title="Jonathan W. Daniels">Jonathan Daniels</a>, editor from 1933 to 1941 and from 1948 until 1964, kept the paper in the direction of appealing for school desegregation and a reduction in race related discrimination. It was also under Jonathan's leadership that <i>The News and Observer</i> bought out the <i><a href="/wiki/Raleigh_Times" title="Raleigh Times">Raleigh Times</a></i> and moved to a building on South McDowell St. in <a href="/wiki/Downtown_Raleigh" class="mw-redirect" title="Downtown Raleigh">downtown Raleigh</a>, where they stayed until the building was sold in 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-NCPedia2_5-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NCPedia2-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On September 3, 1934, <i>The News and Observer</i> began a column about state politics called "Under the Dome", which started on the back page, moved to the front and now runs in the local section.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1968, the Daniels family hired <a href="/wiki/Claude_Sitton" title="Claude Sitton">Claude Sitton</a>, who had been a correspondent for <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> and later an editor there. Serving as the editorial director of the paper, he promoted <i>The News & Observer</i> as a government watchdog and moved the news of the paper away from the personal and partisan stances it had taken under <a href="/wiki/Josephus_Daniels" title="Josephus Daniels">Josephus Daniels</a>. However, its editorials were still often aligned with the Democratic Party. A year later, the <i><a href="/wiki/Mini_Page" class="mw-redirect" title="Mini Page">Mini Page</a></i> children's supplement was created and published. Today, it is one of America's most widely used children's newspaper supplements.<sup id="cite_ref-NCPedia2_5-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NCPedia2-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1971, Sitton became the editor and the paper began buying and publishing smaller local newspapers, starting with <i>The Island Packet</i> in <a href="/wiki/Hilton_Head,_South_Carolina" class="mw-redirect" title="Hilton Head, South Carolina">Hilton Head, South Carolina</a> and <i>The Cary News</i> in <a href="/wiki/Cary,_North_Carolina" title="Cary, North Carolina">Cary, North Carolina</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-NCPedia2_5-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NCPedia2-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On March 16, 1980, a welder's torch started a fire and burned through newsprint threaded through the press, injuring three and causing millions in damage.<sup id="cite_ref-NCPedia2_5-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NCPedia2-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1987, the staffs of <i>The News & Observer</i> and <i>The <a href="/wiki/Raleigh_Times" title="Raleigh Times">Raleigh Times</a></i> merged, and on November 30, 1989, the last edition of <i>The <a href="/wiki/Raleigh_Times" title="Raleigh Times">Raleigh Times</a></i> was published. In 1988, <i>The News & Observer</i> endorsed its first <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> candidate for statewide election, showing, perhaps, a distancing from Democratic partisanship. </p><p>Throughout the early 1990s, <i>The News & Observer</i> divested itself of various local newspapers in South Carolina and the North Carolina mountains, and by September 1993, Sunday sales of <i>The News & Observer</i> reached 200,000 for every week. However, the newspaper still owns <i>The Cary News</i>, <i>Chapel Hill News</i>, and the <i>Smithfield Herald</i> among other newspapers. In 1994, the paper created <a href="/wiki/Nando_(media_company)" title="Nando (media company)">Nando</a>.net, becoming an Internet service provider and began publishing the <a href="/wiki/NandO_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="NandO Times">NandO Times</a> online newspaper. </p><p>In 1999, <i>The News & Observer</i> was named one of America's 100 best newspapers by the <i><a href="/wiki/Columbia_Journalism_Review" title="Columbia Journalism Review">Columbia Journalism Review</a></i>, and one of the 17 best-designed newspapers in the world by the <a href="/wiki/Society_for_News_Design" title="Society for News Design">Society for News Design</a>. </p><p>In 2004, <i>The News & Observer</i> along with three other news publishers filled suit against the <a href="/wiki/Raleigh%E2%80%93Durham_International_Airport" title="Raleigh–Durham International Airport">Raleigh–Durham International Airport</a> for preventing the company from adding new newspaper racks in the terminal. After appeal, a 2010 decision from the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Fourth_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit">Fourth Circuit</a> determined that the restriction was a violation of the <a href="/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="First Amendment to the United States Constitution">first amendment</a> because it put a restriction on expression.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In September 2008, the <i>News and Observer</i> offered buyouts to all 320 newsroom employees, approximately 40% of its staff, in an effort to cut expenses. Previously the company had shut down its Durham news bureau and in a separate event laid off 70 employees.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Layoffs and buyouts have continued since then.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2015 the newspaper announced it would sell its facility in downtown Raleigh for redevelopment, which will entail demolition of much of the facility. New presses will be installed at the newspaper's auxiliary production facility in <a href="/wiki/Garner,_North_Carolina" title="Garner, North Carolina">Garner</a>. Editorial offices will remain in a portion of the redeveloped facility.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By June 2021, the paper only employed 64 reporters.<sup id="cite_ref-borden_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-borden-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards">Awards</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_News_%26_Observer&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1983 – Pulitzer Prize in Commentary</li></ul> <p><a href="/wiki/Claude_Sitton" title="Claude Sitton">Claude Sitton</a> was awarded for his distinguished commentary.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>1989 – Pulitzer Prize in Criticism</li></ul> <p><a href="/wiki/Michael_Skube" title="Michael Skube">Michael Skube</a> was awarded for his writing about books and other literary topics.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>1996 – Pulitzer Prize in Public Service</li></ul> <p>In the Winter of 1995 <i>The News & Observer</i> released a nine part series on the booming pork industry in <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a>. The series covered environmental and health risk of the waste disposal systems used within the pork industry in the state. The award was presented to the paper for the work done by Melanie Sill, Pat Stith and <a href="/wiki/Joby_Warrick" title="Joby Warrick">Joby Warrick</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-prize96_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-prize96-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_publications">Other publications</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_News_%26_Observer&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Other publications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The News & Observer Publishing Co. formerly published a number of <a href="/wiki/Bi-weekly_newspaper" class="mw-redirect" title="Bi-weekly newspaper">bi-weekly</a> newspapers that focused on local news in various triangle-area communities. These included: </p> <ul><li><i>The Cary News</i> covering <a href="/wiki/Cary,_North_Carolina" title="Cary, North Carolina">Cary</a> and <a href="/wiki/Morrisville,_North_Carolina" title="Morrisville, North Carolina">Morrisville</a>.</li> <li><i>The Chapel Hill News</i> covering <a href="/wiki/Carrboro,_North_Carolina" title="Carrboro, North Carolina">Carrboro</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chapel_Hill,_North_Carolina" title="Chapel Hill, North Carolina">Chapel Hill</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hillsborough,_North_Carolina" title="Hillsborough, North Carolina">Hillsborough</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Pittsboro,_North_Carolina" title="Pittsboro, North Carolina">Pittsboro</a>.</li> <li><i>The Clayton News-Star</i> covering <a href="/wiki/Clayton,_North_Carolina" title="Clayton, North Carolina">Clayton</a>.</li> <li><i>The Durham News</i> was first published in 2005 and covers all of <a href="/wiki/Durham_County,_North_Carolina" title="Durham County, North Carolina">Durham County</a>.</li> <li><i>The Eastern Wake News</i> Serving <a href="/wiki/Wendell,_North_Carolina" title="Wendell, North Carolina">Wendell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Zebulon,_North_Carolina" title="Zebulon, North Carolina">Zebulon</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Knightdale,_North_Carolina" title="Knightdale, North Carolina">Knightdale</a>.</li> <li><i>The Garner-Cleveland Record</i> Distributed to homes in <a href="/wiki/Garner,_North_Carolina" title="Garner, North Carolina">Garner</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cleveland,_Johnston_County,_North_Carolina" title="Cleveland, Johnston County, North Carolina">Cleveland</a>.</li> <li><i>The Smithfield Herald</i> First published in 1882 Covers <a href="/wiki/Angier,_North_Carolina" title="Angier, North Carolina">Angier</a>, <a href="/wiki/Benson,_North_Carolina" title="Benson, North Carolina">Benson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Four_Oaks,_North_Carolina" title="Four Oaks, North Carolina">Four Oaks</a>, <a href="/wiki/Princeton,_North_Carolina" title="Princeton, North Carolina">Princeton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Selma,_North_Carolina" title="Selma, North Carolina">Selma</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Smithfield,_North_Carolina" title="Smithfield, North Carolina">Smithfield</a>.</li> <li><i>Midtown Raleigh News</i> covering the area between <a href="/wiki/Raleigh,_North_Carolina" title="Raleigh, North Carolina">downtown Raleigh</a> and the <a href="/wiki/I-440_(NC)" class="mw-redirect" title="I-440 (NC)">I-440</a> Beltline.</li> <li><i>North Raleigh News</i> covering <a href="/wiki/Raleigh,_North_Carolina" title="Raleigh, North Carolina">North Raleigh</a></li> <li><i>Southwest Wake News</i> Covering <a href="/wiki/Apex,_North_Carolina" title="Apex, North Carolina">Apex</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fuquay-Varina,_North_Carolina" title="Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina">Fuquay-Varina</a>, <a href="/wiki/Holly_Springs,_North_Carolina" title="Holly Springs, North Carolina">Holly Springs</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_Hill,_North_Carolina" title="New Hill, North Carolina">New Hill</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Willow_Spring,_North_Carolina" class="mw-redirect" title="Willow Spring, North Carolina">Willow Springs</a>.</li></ul> <p>In June, 2017 these papers were shifted in focus from local community news to entertainment, food, and light features, and in January, 2018 were consolidated into a single bi-weekly paper titled <i>Triangle Today</i>, however that paper was discontinued in January, 2019. </p><p>The News & Observer Publishing Co. owns Insider State Government News Service, a newsletter publisher about state government.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_News_%26_Observer&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span 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